Clafsll. GREEN PLOVER. 379 



fimilarity of colors to the Curlew, it is there called 

 the Jlone Curlew. It breeds in rabbit borroughs, and 

 is faid to lay two eggs, of a copper color, fpotted with 

 a darker red. It is a nocturnal bird, and makes a 

 -whittling noife. Its food is worms and caterpillars. 

 Cefner fays it will catch mice. 



III. The GREEN PLOVER. 



LePluvier Guillemot. Belon av. Dakkarlis Akerhona, Lappis 



260. Hutti. Faun. Suec.fp. 190. 



Pluvialis. Gefner a<v. 714. Pluvialis aurea, le Pluvier dore. 



Pivier. Aldr. av. Hi. 206. Brijfon a<v. v. 43. tab. \.fig. 1. 



Wil.orn.%0%. Piviero verde. Zinan. 102. 



Raiifyn. av. III. Norvegis Akerloe, Cimbris Brok" 



Brachhennl. Kram. 354. Fugl. Brunnicb 187. 



Charadrius Pluvialis. Lin. fyfl. Br. Zool. 1 28. 

 254. 



THIS elegant fpecies is often found on our moors 

 and heaths, in the winter time, in fmall flocks. 

 Its weight is nine ounces : its length eleven inches : Defer, 

 its breadth twenty-four: the bill is fhort and black: 

 the feathers on the head, back, and coverts of the 

 wings are black, beautifully fpotted on each fide 

 with light green : the bread brown, marked with 

 greenifh oblong ftrokes : the belly white : the middle 

 feathers of the tail barred with black and yellowim, 

 green : the reft with black and brown : the legs 

 black. We have obfervedfome variety in thefe birds, 

 but cannot determine whether it is owing to age or 

 fex : we have feen fome with black bellies, others 

 with a mixture of black and white; others with 



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